{"id":30356,"date":"2020-10-27T20:33:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T17:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/?p=30356"},"modified":"2020-11-17T19:12:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T16:12:43","slug":"iskusstvo-vandalizma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/en\/2020\/10\/27\/iskusstvo-vandalizma\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of vandalism"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time<\/span> 6<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Banksy is a British street-artist and a political activist. He is the most famous graffiti artist in the world but works incognito. Banksy\u2019s mysterious personality makes him and his art extremely intriguing and popular: the artist\u2019s works are worth millions of dollars and exhibited by top world galleries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Today Banksy\u2019s anonymity has become his unique feature and seems to be a metaphorical part of his image. However, its origin is pretty simple. In Britain there is a law about property damage that protects some city buildings. Drawing graffitis on their walls may entail serious legal sanctions.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A monkey mask and a black shirt – a basi\u0441 Banksy’s look<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u00abIn the era of the Internet and social media it is hard to hide something. Banksy remains anonymous, and this fact itself is a piece of art. Still, the main factor is the talant, not the artist\u2019s personality. His art is perceived differently by everyone, but the irony, sophistication, and complexity of his works is obvious\u00bb, \u2014 <\/span>says <\/span><\/a>the founder of street-art festivals Ivan Panteleev to \u00abKommersant\u00bb.<\/span><\/p>\n

1. A girl with a hoop<\/b><\/h5>\n

Someone made a graffiti of a girl spinning a tire-like hoop on a wall of some Nottingham building. This work appeared in October 2020. There was an abandoned bicycle without a tire near the mural. Several days after the graffiti had appeared Banksy posted the picture of this work on his instagram page.This was a confirmation of him being the creator. This place instantly became one of the most popular both for the citizens and tourists.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00abEveryone needed such a ray of positivity in these corona times \u00bb, \u2014 Nicola Marshall said to <\/span>BBC<\/span><\/a> when she came with her son to see the mural.<\/span><\/p>\n

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2. EU flag without a star<\/b><\/h5>\n

This work is dedicated to inglorious <\/span>Brexit<\/span><\/a>. The long procedure of leaving the EU caused some backlash in society. The mural shows a worker that is removing one star from the EU flag.<\/span><\/p>\n

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3. Slave labour<\/b><\/h5>\n

The graffiti was spotted on a wall of a London store in 2012. It shows a little boy bending over a sewing-machine. He is sewing together several British flags. This work is Banksy\u2019s reaction to the news about usage of child labour for souvenirs\u2019 production for <\/span>2012 Olympics<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This mural appeared right before the birthday of Elizabeth II. A year later this part of the wall was removed and stolen.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cr: RIA News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
4. Balloon girl<\/b><\/h5>\n

A child with a heart-shaped balloon emerged on a wall of a central London building in 2004. Some believe that the graffiti is a metaphor of hope. Others think that it symbolizes the cruelty of modern society which forces children to grow up yearly and abandon their dreams.<\/span><\/p>\n

Later Banksy made a copy of his work on a canvas. In October 2018 on the <\/span>Sotheby’s <\/span><\/a>auction it turned out that the frame had a shredder inside.The canvas self-destructed after it was sold for 1.4 million dollars. This was a projection of the creators’ discontent with the sale of his work.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cr: Gazeta.ru<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
5. Kissing coppers<\/b><\/h5>\n

This is one of the most famous and controversial works of the British artist. Banksy portrayed two passionately kissing policemen. He wanted the public to pay attention to the problems of LGBT-community. After time passed, the graffiti turned into a symbol of rebellion. Due to a grand backlash it disappeared: it was covered with black paint by anonymous people.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Banksy doesn\u2019t reduce himself only to street-art. In 2010 he became a director of the movie \u201cExit through the gift-shop\u201d, it was nominated for the Oscar. Additionally, several years ago the artist opened an amusement park called \u201cDismaland\u201d. However, the park had nothing to do with conventional entertainment: it was a platform for modern artists and their works.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading time<\/span> 6<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>Banksy is a British street-artist and a political activist. He is the most famous graffiti artist in the world but works incognito. Banksy\u2019s mysterious personality makes him and his art extremely intriguing and popular: the artist\u2019s works are worth millions of dollars and exhibited by top world galleries.\u00a0 Today Banksy\u2019s anonymity has become his unique … Continue reading “The art of vandalism”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1054,"featured_media":30363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-30356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blank","tag-3-2","keywords-art","keywords-personality","keywords-media","enlishversion-yes","size-medium","format-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1054"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30356"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30735,"href":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30356\/revisions\/30735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hitmedia.su\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}